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Rural Design has redesign a former mill building to a dramatic house in Dingwall, Scotland. The starting point was the few existing freestanding walls and creates a series of courtyards, some of which has begun to be re-inhabited by nature. The brief for this Mill House was for a large family house. Therefore the architect [...]

Description of Hijauan House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by Twenty-Nine Design: Hijauan is a house in the city of Kuala Lumpur. Situated on a small plot in a mature residential development, we took the Malay term “Hijau” meaning “green” as our design directive. Our aim was to avoid cutting a single tree on site. As [...]

Lagoon Beach House is set by Birrelli Architects as a special island retreat, a place for shared living and holiday experiences. The main living spaces, main bedroom and study are efficiently planned all on first floor for the comfort of two. Lagoon Beach House while modernist in programme is nonetheless a contemporary shack referencing the [...]

Herbst Architects was challenged to build a house on the site which 90% covered in mature pohutukawa trees as a part of a continuous belt of forest along the beach front. The program separated loosely into private and “public” components, give smaller individual masses with which to articulate the forms. The private functions of bedrooms [...]

La Hilaria House by RDR Arquitectos in Punta del Este, Uruguay. The Hilaria House is a simple house and holiday weekends. Apart from the master bedroom is on the first floor of the home program is developed on the ground floor. It has a wing that houses two bedrooms, a bathroom and a full suite [...]

Harborview Broadmoor by Laidlaw Schultz Architects in Corona del Mar, California: Set on the upper tier of a residential development overlooking Newport Bay, this unassuming neighborhood became the context for a truly unique home. While the standard residential pad offered little in terms of inspiration, the creation of a faux topography offered the possibility of [...]